So I'm pretty much demoralized after getting waitlisted at TUNCOM, ACOM and BCOM. A little about me is I have a 3.5 sgpa and cgpa with a 28 MCAT. 2+ years as an ophthalmic technician/scribe where I've become one of the lead technicians. Some undergrad research. Minimal volunteering but going to a medical mission on March. I have a big red flag for an arrest from 4 years ago which was dismissed. I guess i'm just scratching my head where I'm going wrong in my interviews to be waitlisted. Possibly due to my interview skills or my red flag which has been brought up on my interviews. What would your guys take be? Am I SOL?
4 interviews, 1 rejection and 3 waitlists
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You did receive the interviews(with disclosing the red flag I assume) so I doubt they'd invite you only to burn you for that very same reason. Is the 3.5 without grade replacement? Stats don't look to be the issue.
I think I'd wager that the rejection with 3 waitlists suggest that your interviewing skills might be the cause for concern. Did you feel you navigated smoothly through the red flag question? Considering it was brought up in multiple interviews.
I think I'd wager that the rejection with 3 waitlists suggest that your interviewing skills might be the cause for concern. Did you feel you navigated smoothly through the red flag question? Considering it was brought up in multiple interviews.
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Not SOL yet. My best guess honestly would be that the arrest is hindering your acceptance. What was it for?
Your stats are great, so it can't be those. My second guess would be the interview skills, but I think my former guess is more likely.
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Interview skills. It's time to hit the clubs and work on your pickup game, aka interview skills.
It was disclosed on my apps. Well it was a domestic disturbance with my ex which I felt I answered the best to my abilities. There weren't really any follow up questions with the red flag. With the interviewing skills, I felt that I am OK in that regard wherein i've prepared for feequently asked questions. Heck they actually used almost the same questions for my interviews. So I don't know. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and update them in the coming months.
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Best bet you can do now is to show you're interested in them through update letters. Tell them what you've been doing since you've interviewed. I do lean towards the side that it might be your interview skills coupled with the red flag of the arrest. Keep your hopes up, it's not over yet.
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If the red flag has been brought up at every interview, are you sure you're handling it correctly? Are you assuming blame and admitting your mistakes OP, or are you skirting around the issue or trying to explain it away as NBD?
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Can you get it expunged so you don't have to talk about it?
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Having interviewed candidates like the OP in the past, I suspect that the arrest >>> interview skills in affecting their fate. We're simply leery of taking a risk on such a candidate.
Another possibility is how the situation was explain by the OP at the interview.
Take the arrest out of the equation and then interview skills are most likely to blame.
Another possibility is how the situation was explain by the OP at the interview.
Take the arrest out of the equation and then interview skills are most likely to blame.
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It's not over yet. I feel like there's a decent chance one of those newer schools waitlist will open for you.
If not take a year to pad your app even more. You did the hard stuff, stats are great. Just do some volunteering.
If not take a year to pad your app even more. You did the hard stuff, stats are great. Just do some volunteering.
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Out of curiosity, why would adcoms offer the invite to begin with if he/she does have that arrest? Were they hoping for a good answer for the arrest in person to overcome risk?
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Based upon what my school does, I believe that the other COMs are not pre-screening. It's not like we're so desperate for warm bodies to fill our seats that we need to take everyone. We could easily auto-reject people with OAs and arrest/convictions and it wouldn't make a scratch on the applicant pool.
But no...the Admissions deans mission is to fill seats. We, on the other hand, have the teach them and turn them loose on the public.
In the best-case scenario, the schools are willing to overlook the arrest because of how it was explained in the PS, but then the interview skills became the issue. But on the whole, we're extremely leery of people who lay hands on other people. Yes, I know that this is very complex and there is a lot more in the background that we don't know.
But no...the Admissions deans mission is to fill seats. We, on the other hand, have the teach them and turn them loose on the public.
In the best-case scenario, the schools are willing to overlook the arrest because of how it was explained in the PS, but then the interview skills became the issue. But on the whole, we're extremely leery of people who lay hands on other people. Yes, I know that this is very complex and there is a lot more in the background that we don't know.
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I would do what I could to get it expunged. It will be an expensive process but may be worth it in the end.
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OP said his charge was disturbance, not abuse. Legally, one can be arrested for domestic disturbance in a verbal argument out of hand. Does not mean that he laid his hands on another person. Unless it was actually domestic abuse charges, which would look worse.
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Based on this, what might occur that I was waitlisted rather than rejected since I did have this arrest. Another applicant can be easily be waitlisted with similar stats and experiences.
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I would imagine that adcoms would be very hesitant to admit someone who in their eyes, might have an increased risk of committing harm to another person. Am I saying that the OP has committed harm during his domestic disturbance incident? No. However, adcoms would not want you to lose your cool with one of your future patients and possibly have another incident like you had before. Just my two cents though.
